I can't help but notice that Slashdot has been posting more and more non-stories. I also can't help but notice that this started right after CmdrTaco left. So, this is pretty much how it's going to be from now on, eh? Some stories about Nokia or Apple, mixed in with a healthy dose of correct politics and ordinary news. An earthquake where no nuclear plants were damaged?
Again, if you are a person of the dominant culture and the dominant gender, and you fire a person of color or of gender, you are at fault. Period. This ridiculous "color-blindness" you seem to have is a symptom of teabaggism. Face the facts: there is no such thing as being color-blind, it is only a cover for keeping coloreds out. Decades of jurisprudence back this viewpoint. I suggest you attain a position of power in the federal government and then behave like you suggest. Good luck to you, racist! The rest of us will be cheering while you are eviscerated by lawyers and tossed out on the pavement. Thus always to tyrants (and closet right-wingers like you).
As in...the question was actually biased, but you successfully cloaked it in sciencism so as to hide in the crowd. Congratulations!
How does you spot a sciencist in the wild? They are very hostile if one shows any creative ideas that don't have 'evidence' attached. Always, no matter what you may be talking about...human relations, sex, politics, you name it...they suggest a person cannot have ideas and explore as long as you are not a scientist, and have no 'evidence'.
This is similar to religion. I.e., the Church condemning ANY experience unless sanctioned by the Church! This is the impression I get from seeing sciencism in the wild.
I agree with Feminist critics of sciencism, that you who promote science in the way you do - as sciencism - are yourselves seemingly unaware of the patriarchal assumptions you share. Your 'mind/body problem' for example...Your neanderthal views of females, and so on. Your belief that you can be wholly objective with your scientific method and how it must therefore be 'truth'. But I see you as a Kafkaesque iron door ready to slam shut in front on anyone wanting to explore beyond consensual boundaries. You use various forms of attack to defend your sciencist worldview (*cough* Slashdot moderation *cough*) and allow none other to pollute your small-minded viewpoint, which is based not on science, but on sciencism. Einstein and Turing would be ashamed.
Uh, no. Ever hear of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? It's the basis for one of the main plot points of 1984. Orwell's disillusionment with Communism is the entire basis for the book. As in, he actually saw it in practice.
Amazing how things can be "reinterpreted". Orwell would approve.
Oh, I should have known the teabaggers would be out in force on this topic. As if facts are a defense to racism! Hint: racism does not require intent. Get it straight before you try to defend your heroes in government.
When you are making an album about science, it is difficult to avoid the culture clash that is created by fact-based systems of thinking with people who demand their personal spiritual beliefs be recognized as fact.
I have never heard such a stirring refutation of socialism as in this sentence. Long live fact-based economic systems! Hurrah TMBG!
But it would, definitely would matter if the boss is NOT a person of color. Stop putting it in scare quotes, it's a legally permissible term, and has been for ages. Is an "unjust" reason that the boss is non-color and the USG employee is? I suggest a readthrough of the relevant literature and court cases, I guarantee you'll be surprised. Or educated...many times, those are the same.
Handwaving the fact that such evidence was manufactured under political auspices. Go back and read the Climategate memos, and tell me there were no political motivations of the parties involved.
You didn't figure the racial component into your numbers. The US Government isn't just some anonymous governing body of people who happen to live in the center of the North American continent, it is also a method by which to give jobs to minorities. You think I'm joking...look it up. For real, dude.
You'd be surprised in which circles Khadaffy is celebrated as an anti-Imperialist hero. Verrrrrry inconvenient truths, to be sure. Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄYan, and many others accepted the award. Again, you would be very, very surprised to discover that Louis Farakhan is accepted as an intellectual among certain groups in the world. All of them leftist, but here I am injecting inconvenient truths into the discussion.
Curious that your reply to "too much money being spent in government deserve to be fired" is an immediate strawman to "hate". Please explain. Cite examples.
Please tell details, I'm curious to know. How did the boss fire these people, exactly? Were they people of color? If so, how did the firing go without unanswerable questions of race? As we all know, the Federal Government isn't just a governing body, part of its responsibility is to give jobs to the less-advantaged. Taking away such a job from a minority could only be accomplished under the severest of circumstances. Tell us, how did it happen?
You do realize, of course, that "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was a treatise against leftism, specifically Communism? No, you didn't realize that? Go back and read it again, and juxtapose it against what Communists believed from 1937-1941. Seriously.
It's just really suspicious how well "global warming" solutions dovetail with existing leftist goals. Seriously, you'd have to show how global warming is really a conclusion of science rather than an attempt to clothe leftist goals in a cloak of "science".
After all, attempts to refute Communism on an intellectual level were met with similar epithets of denialist. What, you're not familiar with the concept of scientific socialism? Right-wingers were jailed or put into mental institutions for denying the inherent truth that socialism was the One True Creed that would unite mankind and lead us all into a New Golden Age. Seriously. As much as it gets your dick hard to think about right-wingers being imprisoned for their beliefs, it really happened.
Perhaps it's coincidental how
The main problem is bad decisions by the students. Nobody is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to take loans. If they do take a loan, they better have damn good idea of how to repay it following graduation. A degree in underwater basketweaving or racial studies[1] is not going to cut it. And now that you mention it, yes, communism pretty much only exists on college campuses. Where else are people exposed to this discredited ideology?
[1] It's bizarre that we as a culture have departments of racial studies at our universities. I keep thinking of the Third Reich whenever I see that term.
Maybe you weren't there during the 2008 election, but Obama was promised as the Second Coming. He was the savior who was going to deliver us and ring in a new era. When he was elected, serious, hardcore journalists wept openly on camera. He got the Nobel Freakin' Peace Prize, for God's sake. He's right up there with Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter in the pantheon of heroes!
Have you even been reading leftist thought recently? The war in Libya was just another imperialist oil grab. The recipient of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, had harsh words for the intervention of NATO in a country's internal affairs, as did many other prominent intellectuals.
Oh, please. The same things were said about the Japanese in the 80s before their economy imploded. There is no way China can maintain a 10%+ growth rate and the growth is all that's keeping the people quiet. It's like Disco Stu's "if current trends continue, Disco music will take over the world by 1980!"
No, that was just a retcon propagated by people who probably never saw "Cosmos" in the first place, or if they did, it's all they remember. Just think of the total lack of imagination at seeing a wondrous series like "Cosmos" and the only thing you come away with is "durrr, he said billions LOL". Munchkins.
Uh, obviously you are confusing highly-calibrated laboratory lasers with cheapo consumer laser pointers. Sure, the beam loses power as it spreads, but when you start with a 2000mw laser, you've still got sufficient light to blind the human eye at a distance of several thousand feet.
Uh...you know how a flashlight beam spreads out when you turn it on? Like, the opening of the flashlight is an inch wide but you shine it on the wall and it's two feet wide? Yeah, that. A laser is just a flashlight. When you shine it on an aircraft, the beam spreads out and can easily blind the pilots. You don't need to aim accurately, and if you did, taping the laser to the side of a hunting rifle and using the scope would work great.
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more of this, seeing how easy it is. Not just on airplanes, but on the road as well. I can see some gangsters making cars crash for their gang initiations. It's a matter of time, I suppose, it'll happen eventually. US import restrictions help, but on Taobao, the Chinese eBay, you can get a 10000mw handheld laser for a few hundred bucks. The whole world knows US border security is a joke, anyway.
A frightfully naive interpretation. How about this: the whole program is just a wash to put more money in the hands of corrupt politically-connected creeps. Look at the history of government funding solar power in America...any scandals come to mind?
Oh, so that's it. I had forgotten about BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome. Yes, that means all political leaders are failures - except those who went to university to become politicians. Support the establishment!
Deal with it. University graduates are better. Have you ever dealt with the mouth-breathers at community colleges? They have courses in welding and pipefitting, for God's sake. I don't think the Ivies have those sorts of courses.
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I can't help but notice that Slashdot has been posting more and more non-stories. I also can't help but notice that this started right after CmdrTaco left. So, this is pretty much how it's going to be from now on, eh? Some stories about Nokia or Apple, mixed in with a healthy dose of correct politics and ordinary news. An earthquake where no nuclear plants were damaged?
Again, if you are a person of the dominant culture and the dominant gender, and you fire a person of color or of gender, you are at fault. Period. This ridiculous "color-blindness" you seem to have is a symptom of teabaggism. Face the facts: there is no such thing as being color-blind, it is only a cover for keeping coloreds out. Decades of jurisprudence back this viewpoint. I suggest you attain a position of power in the federal government and then behave like you suggest. Good luck to you, racist! The rest of us will be cheering while you are eviscerated by lawyers and tossed out on the pavement. Thus always to tyrants (and closet right-wingers like you).
How does you spot a sciencist in the wild? They are very hostile if one shows any creative ideas that don't have 'evidence' attached. Always, no matter what you may be talking about...human relations, sex, politics, you name it ...they suggest a person cannot have ideas and explore as long as you are not a scientist, and have no 'evidence'.
This is similar to religion. I.e., the Church condemning ANY experience unless sanctioned by the Church! This is the impression I get from seeing sciencism in the wild.
I agree with Feminist critics of sciencism, that you who promote science in the way you do - as sciencism - are yourselves seemingly unaware of the patriarchal assumptions you share. Your 'mind/body problem' for example...Your neanderthal views of females, and so on. Your belief that you can be wholly objective with your scientific method and how it must therefore be 'truth'. But I see you as a Kafkaesque iron door ready to slam shut in front on anyone wanting to explore beyond consensual boundaries. You use various forms of attack to defend your sciencist worldview (*cough* Slashdot moderation *cough*) and allow none other to pollute your small-minded viewpoint, which is based not on science, but on sciencism. Einstein and Turing would be ashamed.
Amazing how things can be "reinterpreted". Orwell would approve.
Oh, I should have known the teabaggers would be out in force on this topic. As if facts are a defense to racism! Hint: racism does not require intent. Get it straight before you try to defend your heroes in government.
When you are making an album about science, it is difficult to avoid the culture clash that is created by fact-based systems of thinking with people who demand their personal spiritual beliefs be recognized as fact.
I have never heard such a stirring refutation of socialism as in this sentence. Long live fact-based economic systems! Hurrah TMBG!
But it would, definitely would matter if the boss is NOT a person of color. Stop putting it in scare quotes, it's a legally permissible term, and has been for ages. Is an "unjust" reason that the boss is non-color and the USG employee is? I suggest a readthrough of the relevant literature and court cases, I guarantee you'll be surprised. Or educated...many times, those are the same.
Handwaving the fact that such evidence was manufactured under political auspices. Go back and read the Climategate memos, and tell me there were no political motivations of the parties involved.
You didn't figure the racial component into your numbers. The US Government isn't just some anonymous governing body of people who happen to live in the center of the North American continent, it is also a method by which to give jobs to minorities. You think I'm joking...look it up. For real, dude.
You'd be surprised in which circles Khadaffy is celebrated as an anti-Imperialist hero. Verrrrrry inconvenient truths, to be sure. Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄYan, and many others accepted the award. Again, you would be very, very surprised to discover that Louis Farakhan is accepted as an intellectual among certain groups in the world. All of them leftist, but here I am injecting inconvenient truths into the discussion.
Curious that your reply to "too much money being spent in government deserve to be fired" is an immediate strawman to "hate". Please explain. Cite examples.
Please tell details, I'm curious to know. How did the boss fire these people, exactly? Were they people of color? If so, how did the firing go without unanswerable questions of race? As we all know, the Federal Government isn't just a governing body, part of its responsibility is to give jobs to the less-advantaged. Taking away such a job from a minority could only be accomplished under the severest of circumstances. Tell us, how did it happen?
You do realize, of course, that "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was a treatise against leftism, specifically Communism? No, you didn't realize that? Go back and read it again, and juxtapose it against what Communists believed from 1937-1941. Seriously.
After all, attempts to refute Communism on an intellectual level were met with similar epithets of denialist. What, you're not familiar with the concept of scientific socialism? Right-wingers were jailed or put into mental institutions for denying the inherent truth that socialism was the One True Creed that would unite mankind and lead us all into a New Golden Age. Seriously. As much as it gets your dick hard to think about right-wingers being imprisoned for their beliefs, it really happened. Perhaps it's coincidental how
[1] It's bizarre that we as a culture have departments of racial studies at our universities. I keep thinking of the Third Reich whenever I see that term.
Maybe you weren't there during the 2008 election, but Obama was promised as the Second Coming. He was the savior who was going to deliver us and ring in a new era. When he was elected, serious, hardcore journalists wept openly on camera. He got the Nobel Freakin' Peace Prize, for God's sake. He's right up there with Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter in the pantheon of heroes!
Have you even been reading leftist thought recently? The war in Libya was just another imperialist oil grab. The recipient of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, had harsh words for the intervention of NATO in a country's internal affairs, as did many other prominent intellectuals.
Oh, please. The same things were said about the Japanese in the 80s before their economy imploded. There is no way China can maintain a 10%+ growth rate and the growth is all that's keeping the people quiet. It's like Disco Stu's "if current trends continue, Disco music will take over the world by 1980!"
The previous story was an NPR piece on US economics, now this? This isn't News for Nerds, this is some regular news site. I don't come here for this.
No, that was just a retcon propagated by people who probably never saw "Cosmos" in the first place, or if they did, it's all they remember. Just think of the total lack of imagination at seeing a wondrous series like "Cosmos" and the only thing you come away with is "durrr, he said billions LOL". Munchkins.
See youtube for what it's like to be lased from the ground by someone with a powerful laser pointer. You can shaky-hands it all you want, all you need to to is hit the aircraft once or twice and the pilots are blinded.
Uh, obviously you are confusing highly-calibrated laboratory lasers with cheapo consumer laser pointers. Sure, the beam loses power as it spreads, but when you start with a 2000mw laser, you've still got sufficient light to blind the human eye at a distance of several thousand feet.
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more of this, seeing how easy it is. Not just on airplanes, but on the road as well. I can see some gangsters making cars crash for their gang initiations. It's a matter of time, I suppose, it'll happen eventually. US import restrictions help, but on Taobao, the Chinese eBay, you can get a 10000mw handheld laser for a few hundred bucks. The whole world knows US border security is a joke, anyway.
A frightfully naive interpretation. How about this: the whole program is just a wash to put more money in the hands of corrupt politically-connected creeps. Look at the history of government funding solar power in America...any scandals come to mind?
Oh, so that's it. I had forgotten about BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome. Yes, that means all political leaders are failures - except those who went to university to become politicians. Support the establishment!
Deal with it. University graduates are better. Have you ever dealt with the mouth-breathers at community colleges? They have courses in welding and pipefitting, for God's sake. I don't think the Ivies have those sorts of courses.